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Remember This Seminar - Alzheimer's Disease: What does age have to do with it?Charles E. Smith Life Communities

Alzheimer’s
Disease: What does age have to do with it?

Speaker:
Marie A. Bernard, MD, Deputy
Director of the National institute on Aging(NIA) at the National institutes of
Health (NIH)

Marie A. Bernard, MD serves as Deputy Director of the
National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health. As NIA’s
senior geriatrician, she serves as the principal advisor to the NIA director,
working closely with the director in overseeing approximately $2 billion in
aging research conducted and supported annually by the Institute. She
co-chairs two Department of Health and Human Services Healthy People 2020
objectives: 1) Older Adults and 2) Dementias, including Alzheimer’s Disease.
Within NIH she co-chairs the Inclusion Governance Committee of the Extramural
Activities Working Group, and co-chairs the Women of Color Committee of the
trans-NIH Women in Biomedical Careers Working Group.

She received her
undergraduate education at Bryn Mawr College and her MD from University of Pennsylvania.
She trained in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia,
PA, where she also served as chief resident. She has received additional
training through the AAMC Health Services Research Institute, the Geriatric
Education Center of Pennsylvania, and the Wharton School Executive Development
program.

A light supper is available at 5:30 p.m. The program begins at 6:00 p.m. This event is sponsored by the Hurwitz Lecture Fund.